The Clark Library combines our map collection, government information center, and spatial and numeric data services. It is a rich and unique resource, where students and scholars from every discipline--as well as those working across disciplines--can find the materials, tools, and expertise to meet their research needs.

This library is a congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents. Public access to the government documents collection is guaranteed by public law. (Title 44 United States Code)

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In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, the Stephen S. Clark Library highlights the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn, and Eero Saarinen, Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M’s Bicentennial will present maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution. Come and learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Data Project recently launched the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal. The portal allows searching across thousands of records of openly available geospatial data sets and scanned maps and is built with the open source Geoblacklight software. It is ready for you to use for your geospatial research.

The University of Michigan class "Germany and the Black Diaspora," taught by Professor Kira Thurman, worked over the course of the Winter 2016 semester to create a map of Black Central Europe. Each student identified important figures, events or objects to research and create pins for; the pins were then combined into one, larger map. A central theme guided the class: "making the invisible visible."